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The new movement against Israel’s apartheid
Eric Ruder looks at the new movement taking shape in this country and around the world–for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel and its oppression of the Palestinian people. February 27, 2009 Some 5,000 people turned out in Los Angeles to demonstrate against Israel’s war (David Rapkin | SW) THE RUTHLESS assault on the 1.5 […]
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Academic boycott of Israel takes off in Canada
Wednesday February 25, 2009 Saed Bannoura – IMEMC Over 40 universities in Canada will be participating in activities to mark ‘Israeli Apartheid Week’, beginning on Sunday. Students from the participating universities are calling for a boycott of Israeli academic and cultural institutions until Israel ends, what they call, apartheid policies against the Palestinians. In addition […]
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CUPE union votes for academic boycott of Israel
Feb 22, 2009 08:23 PM Adrian Morrow staff reporter University workers in the Canadian Union of Public Employees have passed a controversial motion calling for an academic boycott of Israel, and union members from at least one Toronto university are planning to pressure their school to cut any financial ties with the country. Although the […]
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CUPE members vote to boycott Israeli universities
Updated: Sun Feb. 22 2009 1:14:50 PM The Canadian Press WINDSOR, Ont. – Delegates at a conference in Windsor for the Canadian Union of Public Employees have voted in favour of boycotting Israeli universities. Resolution 50 protests the Israeli siege of Gaza, which members of the Jewish Defence League call anti-Semitic. At least two locals […]
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Global boycott movement marks its successes
Jeff Handmaker, The Electronic Intifada, 20 February 2009 Responding to the many calls for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel, solidarity movements around the world have marked many successes. It is important for human rights advocates to build on this momentum and seize the opportunity to do what is within their power to try […]
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Significance of Dockworkers’ Refusal to Offload Israeli Cargo
Report by Azad Essa Published here: 15/02/09 11 February, 2009 countercurrents.org When COSATU and its affiliate SATAWU made it clear that their dockworkers would not be offloading the Johanna Russ, in palpable solidarity with the Palestinian people last week, a largely irrelevant port in the Southern tip of Africa called Durban was making history across […]
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Support this worldwide Divestment and Boycott Campaign Against Israel and Apartheid” appeals Palestinian Labor Leader in SF Speech
Monday, 16 February 2009 “We actually don’t have any other way to exercise international pressure except calling our friends and supporters in the trade unions around the globe to call for this Boycott and Divestment.” stated Manawel Issa Abdellal, member of the Executive Committee of the 250 thousand member Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions […]
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U.S. Trade Unionists Support South African and Australian Dockers’ Boycott of Israeli Cargo
February 17, 2009 – “For the sake of the hundreds of thousands trembling under our violence, I cannot be silent.”–Martin Luther King Jr., Beyond Vietnam, April 4, 1967 We salute the South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU) in Durban, and Western Australian dock worker members of the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA), for […]
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Trade unionists launch boycott of Israeli goods
Belfast Telegraph February 10, 2009 Trade unionists are to launch a boycott of Israeli goods as part of a major campaign to secure a peaceful settlement in the Middle East, Stormont heard today. The Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) launched a report on Israel and Palestine compiled by senior members who visited the troubled […]
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COSATU General Secretary, Zwelinzima Vavi’s address to Lenasia Rally in solidarity with the people of Gaza
Submitted by kole on January 15, 2009 – 9:34am 14th January 2009 – > From our own experience, we know how painful and dehumanising is the system of segregation, otherwise known as apartheid. Apartheid is a system based on the assumption that one group or race is superior to others and therefore has a right […]
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